The lawyer really put the witness through the wringer!
•The teacher put the students through the wringer.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
put someone through the wringer — put (someone) through the wringer to make someone have a very difficult or unpleasant experience. They really put me through the wringer in my interview … New idioms dictionary
put someone through the wringer — go through/put someone through/the wringer phrase to suffer, or to make someone suffer, an unpleasant experience She’s been put through the wringer these past few months. Thesaurus: to be in, or to get into a difficult situationsynonym Ma … Useful english dictionary
put through the wringer — put (someone) through the wringer to make someone have a very difficult or unpleasant experience. They really put me through the wringer in my interview … New idioms dictionary
go through the wringer — put (someone) through the wringer to make someone have a very difficult or unpleasant experience. I went through the wringer to get my first film part … New idioms dictionary
go through the wringer — go through/put someone through/the wringer phrase to suffer, or to make someone suffer, an unpleasant experience She’s been put through the wringer these past few months. Thesaurus: to be in, or to get into a difficult situationsynonym Ma … Useful english dictionary
wringer — [riŋ′ər] n. [ME, an oppressor] 1. a person or thing that wrings 2. a machine or device for squeezing out water or other liquid, esp. one fitted with opposed rollers to squeeze the water from wet clothes ☆ put someone through the wringer Slang to… … English World dictionary
wringer — UK [ˈrɪŋə(r)] / US [ˈrɪŋər] noun [countable] Word forms wringer : singular wringer plural wringers American a mangle • go through/put someone through the wringer to suffer, or to make someone suffer, an unpleasant experience She s been put… … English dictionary
wringer — wring|er [ rıŋər ] noun count a machine used for squeezing water out of clothes go through/put someone through the wringer to suffer, or to make someone suffer, an unpleasant experience … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
wringer — [[t]rɪ̱ŋə(r)[/t]] PHRASE: V inflects If you say that someone has been put through the wringer or has gone through the wringer, you mean that they have suffered a very difficult or unpleasant experience. [INFORMAL] … English dictionary
wringer — /ˈrɪŋə / (say ringuh) noun 1. someone or something that wrings. 2. an apparatus or machine which wrings water or the like out of anything wet; a mangle. –phrase 3. be put through the wringer (or mangle), Colloquial to be subjected to emotionally… …
agonize — v 1. suffer, writhe, bleed, go through hell, be in misery. 2. struggle, wrestle, grapple, fight with; labor, toil, strive, strain, exert oneself, exercise oneself, work on; pour over, worry over, trouble oneself over, lose sleep over, Sl. beat… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
